OT: Kaiser Roll or Hard Roll?
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I do have to ask though- do some people in NJ really not know what a hard roll is?
I have been all over the country and never got a strange look when asking for a hard roll.
I have been all over the country and never got a strange look when asking for a hard roll.
Live 5 minutes from there. great place. Plenty to do and great restaurants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Correct. Austrian, not German.
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A Kaiser has the swirl/design/whatever
A “hard roll” can be just about anything else.
I just didn’t know the nuance in the rolls. Sometimes I get a Kaiser roll when I ask for a hard roll. I bet they didn’t know the difference.
I bet you are correct.
I never say Kaiser or hard. Just “on a roll” when I place an order. I get what I get.
Look at the menu in every diner, deli and breakfast joint in NNJ. Amazing that something that doesn't exist is on every single menu and pork roll is not on those very same menus. You can call it meat garbage for all I care, here in NNJ it is known as Taylor Ham. Based on population I would bet more people refer to it as Taylor Ham than pork roll.
I’m pretty sure when they did the survey of RU basketball fans and were giving out free PR and TH t shirts at the RAC a few years ago pork roll won in a landslide
Yeah, but that's because the RAC is in a place that doesn't exist, Central Jersey.
I live in Flanders, Morris County, and have for 20 years, everyone I know here calls it Pork Roll. Thanks for trying.
Weird. I used to work in that area and have tons of friends in the area. They all call it Taylor Ham. Never heard anyone call it Pork Roll around there.
Times have changed. 4 example, dems never used to be communists, NOW .................
The After Grill in Flanders Menu:
Mt Olive Bagel
Budd Lake Diner
Chester Diner menu
Bill's Luncheonette
Flanders Bagels
Yeah you don't know anyone who calls it Taylor Ham...
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UMMMM. I never said it wasn't on the menu, I said I don't know anyone who calls it Taylor Ham. OK? NOW, you are taking this WAY TOO serious. Calm down and get yourself a PREC on a roll with a tall glass of OJ. Good grief.The After Grill in Flanders Menu:
Budd Lake Diner
Chester Diner menu
Flanders Bagels
Yeah you don't know anyone who calls it Taylor Ham...
Add mayo and you have the blandest sandwich ever. I would also add pickles to my version.
I use both interchangably. When ordering a Taylor ham egg and cheese, I'll usually say "on a roll" or "on a hard roll". And I've ordered a "hard roll with butter". But when just buying rolls, I'll usually refer to them as Kaiser rolls, and other types of sandwiches I'll sometimes order on a Kaiser.
Raised in North Jersey, live in Central Jersey.
Raised in North Jersey, live in Central Jersey.
A few years longer ago than that - During college summers, I made extra money (really good money actually) working at a Sealed Air/Jiffy factory where my stepfather was the Chief Mechanic. Every morning (6am - Yeesh) we’d stop at he Hamilton Luncheonette on Hamilton St in Somerset (was known as Rosemary’s beck then). We‘d see a lot of the factory guys getting coffee etc.
One forklift guy, a really nice old Italian immigrant (it took me until Senior year to work out his thick accent) would always order the same thing - Butter Sandwich! I think only the owner really knew what he wanted. Good thing she was almost always there, lol.
I'm from Central Jersey and have always just called it a roll, but between the two options, I know it as kaiser. I also never specify, I'm pretty sure if you just ask for a pork roll, egg, and cheese, you get it on a roll at most places anyway.
This is pretty much what my Girlfriend (born and raised in Wyckoff) says - according to her while similar, a kaiser roll may be more "doughy" than a hard roll (kind of like how a square is a rectangle).
Being from Middlesex County I've had no hard and fast opinion hard roll vs. kaiser roll - but I do remind her that its pork roll and not taylor ham.
When I order Taylor ham I use hard roll as well I do remember as a kid some kids referred to it as Kaiser rolls so it’s not foreign to me but I never used it much. Basically same thing.
Your last sentence is probably true (population wise) but it's still wrong.
Down here (I live in New Zealand), bacon sandwiches are hugely popular (and very good). They are called "bacon butties." I asked a friend why they call them that and he replied, "Because they have bacon in them." I responded, "I figured out the bacon part, but why 'butties'"? He said, in the UK, bread and butter sandwiches are called butties -- butter sandwiches. Buttie then became the name in general for sandwiches. So your Italian buddy was merely following English tradition!